"Her performance does not have to do with her gender, it has to
do with her experience and her preparation. Unfortunately, what's
going to happen now is she's going to be looked at (as inferior)
because she was female.

"But she was terrible."

According to Garafolo, Silberman appeared to not know what she
was doing. She took no warm-ups kicks and didn't take the correct
number of steps back before her kickoffs.

Three other kickers who were trying out told USA Today that
Silberman came up to them before the event and asked them how far
behind the ball she should be lining up.

So even though Silberman was the first female to try out, all
signs indicate that she was never really a serious threat to make
the NFL.
Said Hnida:

"It is disappointing. I hoped she would go out and do justice for
an NFL tryout, because there are lots of people who have dreamed
of going to the NFL. It should be something serious."

Silberman paid $275 to try out, so she had the right to take it
however seriously as she wanted to. She
told NFL Network before the event that she was
"expecting to have fun and meet interesting people."